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This long-term care facility is a 60-certified bed "for-profit" home providing services and cares to residents of Grafton and Taylor County, West Virginia. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating center is located at:
2 Hospital Plaza
Grafton, West Virginia 26354
(304) 265-0400
Taylor Health Care Center
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Taylor Health Care Center offers other services. Additional focused attention includes short-term and long term care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $500,000 for substandard care
Both the federal government and the state of West Virginia can impose monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare of any nursing facility that has been found to have violated the established nursing home rules and regulations.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Taylor Health Care Center for $500,000 on March 01, 2017, citing substandard care. This nursing facility received eight complaints over the last three years that resulted in violation citations.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services Adult Protective Services Website.
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Information on every intermediate and long-term care home in the state can be reviewed on government-owned and operated database websites, including the West Virginia Department of Public Health and Medicare.gov.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including one out of five stars concerning health inspections, four out of five stars for staffing issues, and one out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "failed to ensure residents were free from sexual abuse." This issue involved seven residents, including "unidentified female residents who received nonconsensual sexual contact from [three male residents]."
The investigators determined that "the facility's failure to protect female residents from repeated nonconsensual sexual contact by male residents resulted in the determination of Immediate Jeopardy."
In one case, a resident's Care Plan included a problem statement indicating that "the resident will function at optimal levels within limitations imposed by Alzheimer's and free from harm." The goal statement added an approach noting that "the resident wanders. Also, at times, other residents have touched her inappropriately and she is not able to remove their hands." The staff is "to monitor, intervene and protect her."
One individual stated during a confidential interview that three male residents had targeted the resident "for putting their hands in her crotch." The confidential informant said that the resident "could not defend herself and staff would separate them when these incidents occurred." The investigators asked how the incident was reported. The informant said that they documented the incidents "in the Nurse's Notes and the Social Worker and Director of Nursing were informed."
The informant stated that the resident "had to be moved to the Second Floor to get her away from these men." A review of the victim's Nurse's Notes indicated that the resident was "wandering in a wheelchair in the hallway [while being inappropriately touched] by a male resident."
At another time, the resident was "found in the hallway with another male resident. The male resident had his hands down [the female resident's] pants." The female "was attempting to get away from the male."
In a separate incident, a staff member verbally abused a resident, "causing the resident to become upset and cry."
Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment while living at Taylor Health Care Center? Contact the West Virginia nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Taylor County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Grafton.
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Sources:
Attorney Bob Daley
Licensed in West Virginia
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home